Collaborative Effort: Conservation Contributions to a Museum Exhibit
Posted November 12, 2024
This fall, Northwestern University Libraries loaned 63 items to The Block Museum of Art to appear in the exhibition Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and...Category: Preservation
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Many Hands Make Light Work: Treating and Housing Over 1,000 Siege and Commune of Paris Posters
Posted August 27, 2024
By Jess Ortegon Over the years, Northwestern conservation staff have worked on a few sections of the Siege and Commune of Paris (ca. 1870-1871)...
Breaking News! Big Bound Newspapers Get Boxed: Housing a Chicago Tribune Collection
Posted May 1, 2024
By Julie Calcagno Taking on a large collection housing project, especially if you’ve never done one before, can be daunting. There are so many...
Going Under the Microscope: 15th Century, Fractured and Flaking
Posted March 21, 2024
By Lindsey Williams The Object in Question In Die Festo Resurrectionis Domini is a 15th century gradual, or choir book, used during the time...
What a Trip! The Deacidification of a Far Out Collection
Posted February 21, 2024
By Julie Calcagno What do sci-fi pulp, countercultural newspapers, and 1960s books on marijuana have in common? They’re enjoyable reads, food for thought and...
Looking a Little Deeper: Conservation and Multispectral Imaging
Posted December 7, 2023
By Jess Ortegon During our work to care for the physical aspects of Northwestern University Libraries’ collections, we sometimes find that objects require a...
Madrid museum features Northwestern avant garde materials
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Yes, We Do That, Too! Preservation Week Insights
Posted May 1, 2023
Happy Preservation Week! It’s the best time of year because it’s an opportunity to talk endlessly about what preservation is and what our department...
Stjopka Collages Revealed
Posted February 6, 2023
By Laura Berenger The collage artworks by Stjopka (born 1956) present a very detailed world and an imagination that is adventurous, historical, tender, macabre,...